Articles by Kapurusa

under suspension in connection with the Rajan case) came, He took out his cigarette packet, opened it and, looking at Benher, said: "Please". Benher was about to touch the cigarette when he got a thundering blow on the head. He fell down. For good measure, Pulikkodan gave him a kick.

Kapurusa THE literature of the Left accumulates, and at a furious pace. Read and learn, learn about the nefarious doings of international capitalism. Capitalists at the metropolitan centre do it all, capitalists in the underdeveloped tracts do not really matter, they are peripheral entities. If the neo-colonialists had not plotted and conspired at the centre, there would not be any comprador elements in the lands of the natives either, and exploitation would be an arcane word.

In Due Season Kapurusa RAMA CHAKRAVAKTY is not impressed. She has heard a lot in recent weeks about the extra-constitutional authority which supposedly was instru- mental for Indira Gandhi's ruin. She remains unconvinced; she in fact is outraged. She does not have much formal education. Way back in the early sixties, she had passed the high school examination. Given their financial' circumstances, it was not possible for her parents to send her to college. Fortunately, she got married, and since then her life has conformed to the set pattern of nondescript lower middle class existence. She does not regularly read the newspapers; these days, she cannot afford to subscribe to newspapers, But she retains an earthy commonsense. She relates political issues to the experience she herself has gone through and is going through. Heaping the blame for all that hap- pened in the country in the recent past on the demon of an extra-constitutional authority incenses her, Render unto the czarina, she would say, what belongs to the czarina. Those going for the escape hatch of the eca should recall other happenings, happenings prior to June 1975, happenings, for example, during the railway strike of 1974, If they cannot recall, Rama Chakravarty would help them out.

In Due Season Kapurusa THIS hour belongs to the people, Bear with them; there are few occasions in their life which call for celebration. Allow them this sparse moment for a brief gush of contentment. They did it on their own, they did it with their votes, This multitude in rags and tatters, who, determination writ large on their faces, matehed to the polls, represent the nation's dispossessed; for once, their incensed ego decided to hit back. Over the long haul, this verdict may not mean much. Those who would come to power during this week do not by and large reflect a different configuration of class forces from the set who have been summarily ejected. The daily battle of existence will therefore continue; the economic laws will remain what they always have been, The poor and the dispossessed will have to learn, through the hard way, that there is no surrogate to the solidarity oi class. That Marxian cliche

ln Due Season Kapurusa LET words come out from the depth of truth. Let them. In any event, nobody knows how much time